Intellectual Merit: This research will place the subsidence history of the southern Victoria Land Basin into a quantitative geodynamic context and will assess the influence of flexure associated with ...

The relatively pristine Antarctic continent with its extensive maritime zone represents a unique location on the planet to investigate the long distance aerial transport and deposition of marine microorganisms. ...

These data are stacked multichannel marine seismic reflection data recorded during the 1987 field season in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, by SEVMORGEOLOGIA, RUSSIA. The following data types are included ...

These data are stacked multichannel marine seismic reflection data recorded during 1989 field season in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, by the SEVMORGEOLOGIA, RUSSIS. The following data types are included ...

This project is a geochemical study of volcanic rocks from the West Antarctic Rift system. Its goal is to understand the link between mantle composition and the diverse, regional geodynamic processes, ...

Since November of 2005, 12 thermistors were planted in the upper 2.5 meters of the firn on iceberg C16, Antarctica. Temperature data are collected every 20 minutes and are transmitted via ARGOS satellite ...

Time series of tiltmeter observations (tilt about two horizontal axes in microradians) for a 34 day period on iceberg C16 while it was aground near Ross Island in late 2001 to early 2002. Data shows ...

Since November of 2006, 12 thermistors were planted in the upper 16 meters of the firn on the Ross Ice Shelf near its calving front. Temperature data are collected every 20 minutes and are transmitted ...

In October 2005, three geodetic GPS receivers were deployed on the Ross Ice Shelf near the ice front to observe short-term fluctuations in ice-shelf velocity associated with tidal forcing and other ...

The International Polar Year Historical Data and Literature collection (formerly known as the Discovery and Access of Historic Literature from the IPYs (DAHLI) project) is an online data collection ...

Museum Victoria, Australia's largest public museums organisation, is the State
Museum for Victoria (Australia), responsible for the care of the state's
collections, conducting research, and providing ...

OZCAM stands for the Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums. The
aim of OZCAM is to provide an online distributed query network to faunal
collections in Australian museums. OZCAM is an ...

The Australian Museum has an international reputation in the fields of natural
history and indigenous studies research, community programs and exhibitions.
The Museum was established in 1827 and is ...

Intellectual Merit: The PIs proposed a provenance study of glacial deposits in the Ross Embayment that will provide a broad scale geochronologic survey of detrital minerals in till to help characterize ...

The NSF-supported research icebreaker operates year-round in support of the U.S. Antarctic Program, carrying out global change studies in biological, chemical, physical, and oceanographic disciplines. ...

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).
Most organisms meet their carbon and energy needs using photosynthesis (phototrophy) or ingestion/assimilation ...

Despite being an essential physiological component of homeotherm life in polar regions, little is known about the energetic requirements for thermoregulation in either air or water for high- latitude ...

The NSF-supported research icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer operates year-round in support of the U.S. Antarctic Program, carrying out global change studies in biological, chemical, physical, and oceanographic ...

Several aspect of the seasonal melting and reformation cycle of Antarctic sea ice appear to be divergent from those occurring in the Arctic. This is most clearly demonstrated by the dramatic diminishing ...

In the framework of the Italian Research Programme in Antarctica, a nearshore station positioned inside the Gerlache Inlet ()Terra Nova Bay, Western Ross Sea was regularly sampled during the Austral ...

Soil samples taken from excavated pits on traverses across New Zealand's Scott Base, Antarctica, were analysed for Ag, Al, As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn. The soils had high conductivity and ...